Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is the second of Billy Roche 's Wexford trilogy plays about small-town life in Wexford , southern Ireland .
2 We found no differences in the median cellular proportions of IgG subclasses between healthy and affected Crohn 's disease twins and in the separately analysed discordant twin pairs .
3 For both the TCR- α and TCR -β mutations , intercrosses between heterozygous mice gave rise to homozygous mutant mice at the expected frequency of 25% .
4 Consequently offers for unlisted public companies and even for private companies may be of interest to the Panel if the shareholder base is sufficiently wide for minority protection to be relevant .
5 In summary then , the reasons for choosing The Machine Gunners include the opportunities it offers for various aspects of personal involvement on the part of the reader and its curricular potentials with regard to related topic , theme , and language work .
6 In her final report on the future of Europe , Kim Barnes looks at the opportunities the single market offers for young people .
7 Not least important is the constructive alternative it offers for alienated youth .
8 The Report itself is , as it says , largely a description of the present situation ; its value is therefore the opportunity it offers for new proposals to come forward .
9 And we 've got a list of people who have responded to telesales offers for ambient music compilation albums — about three thousand on that one …
10 The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road .
11 She records for Mute Records , who , as the the sales of Dépeche Mode show , are no slouches in distributing sounds to the masses .
12 There is a method of solving the cube , due to Morwen Thistlethwaite , my colleague at the Polytechnic of the South Bank in London , that always restores the cube in at most 50 moves ( recently reduced from 52 ) and simple counting shows that some positions require at least 18 moves ( counting 180° turns as single moves ) or 21 right-angle turns .
13 The artist alienates her objets trouvés through clever arrangements and marriages of incompatible elements — as in the Lautreamontesque encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table .
14 Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials .
15 Yet doubts about political patterns may be overdone and result in a denial of such phenomena as a New Deal in the United States in the 1930s , Gladstonian Liberalism in the late nineteenth century , or collectivist politics after 1945 .
16 But , in keeping with the decline of the Kentish hop industry , they have been turned into weekend retreats for green-wellied Londoners driving trendy 4×4 jeeps .
17 These were highly prized and burnt only by the priests or priestesses during magical rites , worship of the gods or for healing purposes .
18 He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs .
19 Mark Nicholson , who plays for Scottish Students next month against the English Students , ran from his own 22 to put Gareth Williams over for the first of the visitors ' seven tries .
20 Since the three most effective phylloxera-resistant species are the Vitis Berlandieri , the Vitis Rupestris and the Vitis Riparia , most rootstock crosses and hybrids ( crosses between different species ) are derived from these .
21 From January 1 1994 , the Mainz factory , which makes platters and disk drives for mid-range and large systems , will become part of the mass storage subsidiary of IBM Corp , as IBM Deutschland AdStar GmbH .
22 One of the strengths of a national library is the range of material it receives through legal deposit .
23 The peo the machine only goes off bad if somebody has n't been maintaining it .
24 I do not have the statistics to hand , but they show how the number of smokers differs between socio-economic groups .
25 Second , it is sometimes of interest to know if price changes ( or returns ) have a symmetric or skewed distribution ( a skewed distribution , for example , would mean that the risk of margin calls differs between long and short positions ) .
26 Furthermore , within New Zealand the death rate from sudden death infant syndrome differs between ethnic groups , with Maori rates substantially higher than those in non-Maori children ( 7.4 and 3.6/1000 live births respectively in 1986 ) .
27 We shall discuss it in a variety of ways throughout the chapter and consider how it differs between theoretical frameworks .
28 Local government expenditure also differs between local authorities : some spend more than others per head of population on particular services ( Foster et al .
29 The distance from the food source to the hive at which the changeover from round to waggle dance takes place differs between different races of bees ; Apis mellifera lamarcki , for example , do round dances up to distances of only about four yards , whereas Apis mellifera carnica do it up to about 16 yards .
30 On April 27 a US C141 transport plane carrying relief supplies for Kurdish refugees arrived on the Iran-Iraq border .
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